Review of Trekkies 2 (2004) by Alex D — 01 Jul 2018
Unlike the first "Trekkies" film, which is a fine documentary, "Trekkies 2" is a hurried, shoddy production, filmed on video (rather than film), poorly edited, cheaply produced, and with none of the charm of its predecessor.
It has the look and feel of a slap-dash cable-TV documentary. The main thing that the sequel offers is that it goes abroad to find Trek fans in England, Germany, France, Italy, Brazil and Serbia. But unlike the first film, this one does not explore any particular fans' life or fan-dom in greater depth, so there's little to draw the viewer's long-term interest.
The first film gave you enough information about a few key people to make you empathize with them and respect what they do. "Trekkies 2" fails to do that, and comes off like a dull gallery of eccentrics (dull because eccentricity by itself is not inherently impressive or interesting).
The one saving grace of "Trekkies 2" is the part dealing with the Trek fans in Serbia, who explain that Star Trek helped them see a peaceful, tolerant future throughout the terrible years of the Yugoslav wars.
The Serbian fans had to deal with much more profound obstacles in the way of living their passion than fans elsewhere (political, social, economic). I believe an entire documentary - and a more poignant one - could have been made just about them.
This review of Trekkies 2 (2004) was written by Alex D on 01 Jul 2018.
Trekkies 2 has generally received mixed reviews.
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